Book Interview: a horseback adventure recalled, 30 years on
Hilary Bradt speaks with Isabel Conway about A Connemara Journey .
Hilary Bradt author, travel book writer and publisher
Sat, 15 May, 2021 - 13:00
A Connemara Journey: A Thousand Miles on Horseback through Western Ireland has just been published by Bradt Guides.
See www.bradtguides.com and www.hilarybradt.com
Ask veteran explorer and travel guide writer Hilary Bradt why it took her over 30 years to publish “the most important adventure of my life, the one that changed me forever” and she has a great excuse. A string of guide books, tour-leading in remote parts of the world, plus running a successful business accounted for only part of the hold-up.
Book review: Danny Morrison looks at the story of Irish partition How (author, Ivan) Gibbons can claim that although partition was messy and a second-best solution, it was pragmatic and avoided mass civil strife baffles me - given the thousands who died overall
King George arriving to open the new parliament of Northern Ireland in Belfast, 1921.
Sun, 02 May, 2021 - 14:00
Danny Morrison
Ivan Gibbons
Haus Publishing, H/B £12.99
Its one-hundredth birthday falls on May 3, yet no unionist or revisionist historian has ever written a book titled, The Success of Partition. Doubts over its future are now part of mainstream and popular discourse. A democratic and peaceful way forward was established in the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) in 1998, including the mechanism of a referendum for bringing about constitutional change.